Stitching the pieces together
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DS1 was always taking a needle and thread and making things when he was younger. Now he uses his wife' sewing machine more than she does!
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My four grandkids, as well as a niece and nephew, have learned how to sew on a machine. The boys are especially intrigued with workings of the sewing machines. I love that they've grown up wanting to "make things." I had been told by a friend who was a teacher how to instruct them to work the machine. She advised positioning the standing child between me and the machine. This worked great! The child felt like he had total control from turning the machine on, to lifting and lowering the presser foot, to pushing the button for reverse stitching,and of course stepping on the foot petal. All the while my hands were at the ready to make any corrections as well as to help guide the fabric. Also, I could talk/instruct quietly right into their ear.
There are a number of posts on my blog featuring each of those children sewing their projects through a period of years. Here's the link to access them:
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My youngest son was in high school when it was in fashion to peg their Levis...I showed him how to operate my singer and before long he was pegging all his friends jeans too...
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Had great day yesterday. Friend is here and she is a quilter supreme. Have pieced the top of a quilt for DD. We had to get very greative as I was using some very old fabric and didn't have enough of some colours so had to adapt but it looks good. Will take photo later. Now we just have to work out the borders today.
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FAB pic ellie!!! Lisa, what does 'peg' jeans mean? Is that when you insert fabric in a triangular shape? I was too old for that, my kids too young as they are only in their 30's.
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pegging pants is making them skinnier at the bottom...my kids are 38-43
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Barbe,
When we pegged our pants legs, we made them tight to the ankle. Had to leave enough room to get our foot in though. Perhaps it was a west coast thing....0 -
I think we did it back in the 1950s on the east coast of US
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Note lump at top corner! One Gus cat.
Colour co-ordinated cat on quilt friend and I had just laid out. It is mostly batiks.0 -
Looks like Gus wants to be in the center of things. Love the around the block quilt!
Great picture, Nellie.
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I loved it when I had my pets coordinated: a yellow lab and an orange cat. Unfortunately, I fall for cats based on personality rather than color, so now have a black one.
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Alyson - beautiful quilt!
And Gus is TOO CUTE. I miss my kitties.
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I have a question for you experienced folks:
I found a really nice red jacket which is lined. The sleeves are too long and I don't want to roll them up. Do you think I can shorten the sleeves from the wrist end? Or should I go ahead and undo the lining bottom to get at it from the inside? I was thinking of cutting both lining and sleeve off and zigzaging the ends. Then sew it back by hand. Usually I just roll my sleeves since even petite size sleeves are too long.
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I would have to see the way it's finished now and the shape of it to give a definite answer, but I think your idea of cutting and machine zig=zagging then hand-stitching would be the way I'd go.
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I often roll up my sleeves as I`m normally too hot. If the lining is nice it can be a very acceptable look. Though I can sew forever in my art, I have buttons missing and hems down on my own clothes!!! I don`t DO alterations or repairs!!!
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Wren, how much are you shortening the sleeves? If its quite a bit, you will probably be happier shortening the sleeve at the sleeve cap, but that's much more involved as you know. If the sleeve is very tapered, you will loose some of that tapering if they're shortened from the bottom. That generally doesn't bother me, but it's something to think about. If you just cut them off at the bottom, be sure to zig zag the lining and fashion fabric separately, then turn the fashion fabric up to desired length and press. Press the lining shorter than the fashion fabric by at least 1/2 inch, and slip stitch it to the fashion fabric hem. This will avoid the wrinkle problem caused by the sleeve bottom being smaller than the sleeve width at the point where you tack the hem up. Of course if you've got a totally straight sleeve (no taper) then you can hem both pieces together to the sleeve lining. Hope this makes sense.
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MostlySew, you have explained it well. It has been awhile since I have hemmed a lined jacket other than Patch's wedding suit. When you hem the lining and attach it to the fashion fabric, you will need to slighlty overhang (I am sorry I can't explain this better in writing) about 1/4" the lining over the outer fabric hem. This is all done within the sleeve where it is not visible. This extra fabric in the lining length will give freedom of movement for your arms. It is called a jump hem.
I Googled it and found this from someone better at words than I am:
For an attached lining, press the lower edge of the lining under ⅝-inch. Lap the lining hem over the
jacket hem, matching seams at raw edges and center back/ pleat (if pleat comes all the way to the bottom
of the jacket). Pin in place. Slip stitch in place from front facing around back to other front facing. A
small fold, called a jump hem, will be created. The jump hem provides additional wearing ease in the
lining. Finish slip stitching the lining to the front facings, adjusting the jump hem (fold in the lining) so
that it lays flat and makes a pleat at the lower edge even with the lining hem edge.0 -
wow that is beautiful!!!
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Sandy, do you have a way to post pics of the blankets you are crocheting?
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Here's a tongue in cheek project ... something to do with the bras we are no longer wearing ... or better yet, the bras we wish we could.
Two years ago a friend and I made a bunch of these as Christmas presents. We ended up calling them "pin-up potpourri pouches" since we thought few of our friends would carry these suggestive beauties as evening bags. Although, one friend called hers the "boob bag"
If you'd like to see all that we made, I wrote about them and posted pictures on this blog post:
http://nelliedurand.blogspot.com/2010/01/bra-bags-from-bag-of-bras.html
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Loved the Boob Bags Nellie. I looked at the blog and they are really amazing!
Thanks for sharing,
Ginger
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nope Meece I don't!!
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Bummer, Sandy!
Cute Boobbags, Nellie!
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I should get them all together and take pix of them....George's is right here will take one of that!!
Sandy
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Cool, tgell George we appreciate it.
I am pretty excited. On Thanksgiving my mother gave me a tutorial on crocheting doilies. I bought a book on snowflakes and thought I could start small. Well, although it is like a new language, I am learning to read instructions and I have some flakes completed that actually resemble the pictures in the book. My mother is tickled because she thinks that sort of crocheting is going to be a lost art.
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Lol Meece I know how you feel. It's exciting to accomplish something using a new technique. I was also inspired but had to go to the internet to find some patterns. Luckily I found a site that had loads.....lol. Now all I need is the time to actually make some!
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Meece they are beautiful! You have done them perfectly!
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Thanks. I need to work on the consistency of my stitches, but I am pretty pround of them. My book has 99 patterns. Only 94 to go..
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Lol........Im sure you will work on the consistency but there are loads of people who can't get the tension correct let alone the consistency. The more you make the better you will get.......you'll see.......lol.
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